"Sleepy" wrote in message
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"cil" wrote in message
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Swapped out my old GeForce MMX440 with a new Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT,
powered on PC, new card was detected by XP, XP loaded default MS Radeon
drivers. So far, so good but when I tried to install ATI's Catalyst 4.12
driver, the installation just stops, no error message, nada. . .
I got the card new off ebay, bulk card pack only, no install cd's. ATI's
website said MS .net required so I installed that first. . .
Any ideas on where to go from here??
tia. . .
cil

PC specs:
mb: Gigabyte GA-7VAX
cpu: Athlon XP 2800+
ram: 768mb
video: Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT GV-R96X128D
os: WXP sp2

.NET is only needed for the new and horribly bloated Control Centre
which you do NOT need and IMO do not want.
Reinstall the drivers and basic control panel but not CCC - see how you
go.


Yeah. Get the Omega drivers at www.omegadrivers.net and their control center
does the same as the ATI ones, except without the need for .NET and consumes
zero system resources, unlike ATI's Control Centre.